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Castellani, D. and Lavoratori, K. (2020) The lab and the plant : offshore R&D and co-location with production activities. Journal of International Business Studies, 51 . pp. 121-137. doi:10.1057/s41267-019-00255-3 ISSN 0047-2506.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-019-00255-3
Abstract
The literature has highlighted that the propensity of MNEs to co-locate offshore R&D labs with their production plants can vary substantially according to firm and industry characteristics. In this paper,
we apply a novel two-stage estimation procedure that allows us to tease out this heterogenous behaviour and investigate the factors that are associated with a higher propensity to co-locate
production and R&D activities abroad. Using data on 1,483 greenfield international investments in R&D activities made by 855 firms in 587 cities worldwide, we uncover that the strength of the colocation effect is indeed highly heterogenous across firms. In particular, it is higher among firms with less international experience and geographical dispersion of international activities, as well as with a
lower share of intangible assets. These results are consistent with the idea that co-location is a substitute for firms’ ability to coordinate complex and dispersed organizational structures, and that
firms relying relatively less on codified knowledge can use co-location of offshore R&D and production to facilitate knowledge transfer across activities.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | International business enterprises, Investments, Foreign, Research and development partnership , Joint ventures | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of International Business Studies | ||||||||
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0047-2506 | ||||||||
Official Date: | February 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 51 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 121-137 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1057/s41267-019-00255-3 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Journal of International Business Studies. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Castellani, D. & Lavoratori, K. J Int Bus Stud (2019). is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-019-00255-3 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © Academy of International Business 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 August 2019 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 August 2020 | ||||||||
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